Art and Culture

Good Afternoon, The machines are mostly talking to each other now, and we’re the ones waiting for a reply. The Atlantic frames the quiet crisis well: as the world automates around us, agency leaks out of human hands one…
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It’s impossible to miss the scope of transformation that’s happened in Bentonville, population 63,000. – Fast Company Source link
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Back in the web-traffic-obsessed days of 2018, at a time of dawning awareness of how easily audiences online could be manipulated and spoofed by bots, the writer Max Read argued that the internet had crossed a threshold known as “the…
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In the summer of 1945, four days after Japan’s official surrender and a few weeks into the Atomic Age, President Harry Truman began floating the idea of an agency guided by “the free intelligence of the scientist” that would fund…
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Ballet has a reputation for upholding rigid body standards. In recent years, though, the art form has been rethinking its relationship to diversity in areas like race and body type. – The New York Times Source link
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Teaching people to read and building a world where they can do so are different problems. Throwing our phones in the lake can’t bring about that world, but designing the conditions for reading will. – The New York Times Source…
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When Christopher Knight retired as the art critic at the Los Angeles Times at the end of 2025, he was the last of, arguably, the three most influential US critics of the postmodern (i.e., post-1975) era to depart their roles. Roberta…
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(Photo illustration by Lesley Busby / For The Times; photos from Television Academy; Unsplash PC: Santiago Avila Caro)Every Emmy season, a battle rages over which network or streamer earns the most nominations. It’s so competitive that…
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“The Town has seen its homegrown talent reach new levels of success on the global stage, from figure skater Alysa Liu earning Olympic gold in Milan to filmmaker Ryan Coogler winning four Oscars for his blockbuster Sinners and R&B…
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Well, not kids, but youth, YouTube youth. “The success of two YouTube-native filmmakers at the box office indicates the growing power of the platform — and online culture as a whole — in attracting audiences to cinemas.” – Los…
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